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SInce I have became a moderator here, I have accidently hit the "Edit" button on many people's posts when I meant to quote them. Fortunately, I caught myself before I edited anything!
I have done two things that are equally as worse since they both made Windows unable to boot. I have edited the boot.ini wrongly and have deleted the MBR...
I haven't had a computer mishap in a long time. I am over my stage of wanting to edit and tweak everything... I haven't done a tweak in a long time. I like it how it is now!
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Same here, I have not edited much lately. Win win2k it's harder since there's no DOS mode to copy files (I was mostly in the system file editing... I made the illegal operation say "thank you for choosing microsoft" and stuff) and even if I can use a boot disk, since I'm using ntfs I can't touch the drive outside of windows, and in windows, I can't edit any system files. My favorites are kernel32 and shell32. Those are fun to edit! Oh, and explorer too!
Once I edited explorer a little too much and it would not boot, in win98.
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when I first tried linux on my machine, my modem wasn't working right so I tried a fix I found in a howto, which made linux completely unbootable, and somehow it got setup without the option of single user mode, so I could not bypass the script at all, so I could not login to linux at all. at the time wthoguh I was running a tri-boot with 98 and 2k though, and 98 happened to be messed up too, so I ended up just running 2k all the time till I got around to fdisking...
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hmm... i think i've said this before, but here goes anyway. I tried some drive/file encryption utility from cnet for the windows ME part of my linux/windows ME dual boot. i installed it and set it up. rebooted and promptly forgot the password. couldn't boot into the computer at all which facilitated in a total clean reinstall of windows and 3rd party apps.
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megaspaz wrote: hmm... i think i've said this before, but here goes anyway. I tried some drive/file encryption utility from cnet for the windows ME part of my linux/windows ME dual boot. i installed it and set it up. rebooted and promptly forgot the password. couldn't boot into the computer at all which facilitated in a total clean reinstall of windows and 3rd party apps.
Ouch, that can get ugly!
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did the same thing as spaz, except forgot my root password. Had to reinstall. I know I could have figured it out easily but I was too new to linux and decided to reinstall.
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Oh yeah.... I had tried Linux Mandrake for like less then 24 hours on this old P1 I had. Turned out it did not support the old isa network cards so I had to dump it, but anyways, while working on it, I rebooted and left, I had left the CD in the drive, and when I came back it was installing it - I lost the whole installation. It wiped my root password and all. Thank goodness I did not have nothing important on there!
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